Romney campaign: We lost Florida — President Obama will win Florida when all votes are counted, judging from the makeup of the ballots still outstanding from heavily Democratic counties. — MCAPUTO@MIAMIHERALD.COM — Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured …

The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA — What is Project Orca? Well, this is what they told us: … Pretty much everything in that sentence is false. The “massive undertaking” is true, however. It would take a lot of planning, training and coordination to be done successfully (oh, we'll get to that in a second).

Obama's Holding the Cards — At first glance, the results of the 2012 election look like a return to the status quo: President Obama was reelected, Democrats retained the Senate, and Republicans held on to the House. But don't be fooled. The political dynamic of the next four years …

Obama's Congrats Caller: Christie — President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie look at storm damage along the coast of New Jersey from Marine One, on Oct. 31, 2012. — Chris Christie, who last year dashed many Republicans' hopes by turning down pleas to challenge President Barack Obama …

Rove: Obama won ‘by suppressing the vote’ — GOP strategist Karl Rove went on Fox News today to argue that President Barack Obama “succeeded by suppressing the vote” — an argument that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom that Romney failed to appeal to non-white and female voters.

Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss — Mitt Romney's campaign got its first hint something was wrong on the afternoon of Election Day, when state campaign workers on the ground began reporting huge turnout in areas favorable to President Obama: northeastern Ohio, northern Virginia, central Florida and Miami-Dade.

The last days of Romneyland — BOSTON — From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.

FIRST ON CNN: Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone — Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf on November 1, the Pentagon disclosed on Thursday. — The incident, reported first by CNN, raised fresh concerns within the Obama administration …

The Case of the Missing White Voters — One of the more intriguing narratives for election 2012 was proposed by political scientist Brendan Nyhan fairly early on: that it was “Bizarro 2004.” The parallels to that year certainly were eerie: An incumbent adored by his base …

How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney — At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: “Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue.”

We Should Probably All Calm Down a Bit — I am going to be a killjoy tonight. I have two things to say: — Liberals, you should rein in the triumphalism. Obama won a narrow 51-49 percent victory and the composition of Congress changed only slightly.

Obama gets emotional talking to campaign staff — (CNN) - Video of President Barack Obama's visit Wednesday to his campaign headquarters in Chicago shows the newly re-elected commander in chief becoming emotional while heralding the hard work of his young staffers.

Exclusive: Clinton leads in Iowa '16 - poll — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would start out as a dominant favorite in the 2016 Iowa caucuses if she chooses to run for president, a new survey from Public Policy Polling finds. — The PPP poll, which was shared exclusively with POLITICO …

Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. ‘far gone’ — Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week's elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government.

Bitterfest 2012 — Four years ago, at just this time, I wrote a column headed “Bitterfest '08.” I pledged a couple of weeks ago that I would not write such a column this year. I pledged to myself, I mean. I said, “If Romney loses, I'm not going to write another Bitterfest column.

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